Recipient Detail

SADLER, WILLIAM

Rank: Captain of the Top

Organization: U.S. Navy

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Born: 1854, Boston, Mass.

Departed: Yes

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G.O. Number: 326

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Accredited To: Massachusetts

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Citation

For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Saratoga, off Coasters Harbor Island, R.I., 25 June 1881, and sustaining until picked up by a boat from the ship, Frank Gallagher, second class boy, who had fallen overboard.